Improvement in ticket-holders



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ALBERT F. R. ARNDT,

orv CLEVELAND, onto.

Letters Patent No. 113,479, dated April 11, 1871.

vIMPROVEMENT IN `T|CKETHOLDERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

. To all whom it may concern Be vit known that I, ALBERT F. It. ARNDT, o Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga vand State of Ghio, have invented a new-and useful Improvement in Railroad Passenger Ticket-Box, of which the following is a full'and complete description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a side view of the box.

Figure 2 is an end view of th'e same.

Figure 3 is a vertical longitudinal section.

Figure 4 is a' view ofthe upper side.

Figure 5 is a view of the under side.V Like'letters of reference refer to like parts in the Several views. l

The nature of `this invention relates to a ticket-box for railroad-conductors, in which to deposit duplicates of checks or tickets given to passengers aslacheck for their fare; and the object thereof is to prevent fraud `being committed by the conductors in making their Vreturns of receipts of far'e, as hereinafter' more fully' set forth.

A, lig. l, represents an" oblong square box, of whic B is the handle whereby it is parried.

C are side doors, and D, an end door,-whereby ac- 'ccss is had to the inside, for `urposes presently shown.

used for the same purpose, viz., for holding the unused tickets J, which are placed therein one lupon the other `under a. plate, K,which'is held presseddown upon them by a spring, L, whereby they are kept closely vpacked together forbeing pushed from the box by means of the following device:

Avslide, Mfg. 3, is4 placed on thcbottom of eacl1` of the compartments E F. Said slide is about equal in width to a ticket` .v V

A shoulder, a, on the backend of the slide, rises in a slot above the door on which the pile ci' tickets stands, equal to the thickness of a ticket,- and whereby said ticket is pushed from the box by means ofthe thumb-piece N, figs. 3 and 5, projecting therefrom through the bottom of the box. p d

It will be observed that the slides M pass under the partition I from their respective compartments into the compartment G, and that each slide is attached to a spring, O, whereby it is drawn back after being pushed forward for the ejection of a ticket.

The practical operationof this device is as fol-V lows:

The conductor, when requiring a ticket,1 takes one from the number in either of the compartments.` lhis he does by pushing the slide M in direction of the arrow by means of the thumb-piece N. This movement of the slide brings the shoulder c thereof against the end of the under-most ticket, thereby pushing it endwise from under the pile and out at the' end of the box at the point P, iig. 3, an aperture being at that point' for the egress of the ticket AQ-which is shown as projecting therefrom in fg. l.

The protruding ticket can now `be pulled from the box by the fingers.

,'llieslide will now be drawn back from under the remaining tickets by the spring() referred to, which will allow the nndermost one of the remaining tickets, the next in order, to take the place of the one just withdrawn, and which in like manner can be pushed from the box when required.

rlhe tickets referred to are made double, on one part of which is printed the amount of fare, and on the other part the name of the road, 85e., which the conductor tears in two, audgives onehalf to the passenger and deposits the vother half in the compartment G ofthe box, by dropping it in' the aperture B', iig. 4, in the upperside of `the box, which, on fallingiuto the compartment, is prevented from being taken. therefrom through the aperture by a guard-plate, C', extending across below'the spout D of the ticket-'hole .B' referred to, access being had to the apartment only through the door D in the end of the box.

appointed to receive it, the number of half-tickets found in the compartment G are counted, and as each one formed a part of the whole ticket drawn from one of the compartments E F, the number of tickets sold or claimed to have been sold will thus be known. p

j In order to determine that the number of half-tickets truly represents the number' of the whole tickets drawn from the box, the remaining tickets in the ccmpartment are counted. The .original number of the whole tickets placed in the box being known, the deficit number will truly show the exact number discovered.

The side doors are fastened by a rod, E', which,

On delivery o f the box bythe conductor to those .taken from the boxfand which will beQrepr'e'sented, or

when the end door D is unlocked and opened, een be drawn outes shown in iig. 1, whicha will ailoW the doors O to be opened.

This device for fastening the doors of the compartments E F saves the expense of two looks, thereby The box, having compartments E F G, doors O D rods E', apertures B', and guard-plate C, and, in combinafeion With the slide M, springs OL and plate K. substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

making the cost of the manufacture. of the box much ALBERT F. R. ARNDT. less.

' Witnesses:

01mm- W. H. BURRmGE, p

Wham I claim as my invention, and desire to secure D. L. HUMPHREY. by Letters Patent, isv 

